Pratt & Whitney Van Set on Fire in Orange County, CA in Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance

The brutal bombardment of Gaza, the mass eviction of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque; these can only described as acts of ethnic cleansing and extermination.

Last week, in an act of revolutionary solidarity with autonomous Palestinian resistance, we started a fire at the Pratt & Whitney engine facility in Orange County, CA, completely destroying a fleet van and damaging the exterior of the building. For us, revolutionary solidarity can’t mean mere words or symbolic gestures; it means putting our entire bodies into the struggle and causing material damage to the war machine.

Pratt & Whitney is a division of Raytheon Technologies, the fourth largest arms dealer in the world. Pratt & Whitney have deep ties to the Israeli defense industry. In 2015, Pratt & Whitney signed a 15 year contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, in support of the Israeli Air Force, designed to provide 100% daily propulsion readiness for the entire Israeli fleet of F-15 and F-16 aircraft. Pratt and Whitney also supplies the engines used in the Israeli Air Forces entire fleet of F-16 fighter jets. These same fighter jets are now being used to rain down all hell on Gaza.

As we approach the one year anniversary of the burning of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis following the police lynching of George Floyd, we can’t forget the role that arms dealers such as Raytheon play in the militarization of law enforcement. Raytheon supplies police departments across the country with surveillance technology and training software. We know that all liberation is tied together, and that the Israeli settler state is enlivened by the same racism and colonial ambitions that the United States is embodied by. The same multinational corporations arming the IDF to crush Palestinian resistance are also arming law enforcement agencies in the US to brutalize Black and Brown communities.

From the alleys of Gaza City, to mountains of Kurdistan, to streets of Minneapolis; solidarity with all who struggle against colonialism and state power

-Anarchist Cells of Abolitionist Fire

Targeting civilians in the United States to attack the IDF.

That is the essence of the Palestinian justification of terrorism, i.e., since the civilians support the military it’s justified to attack civilians as well.

This is also why Palestinians and Palestinian supporters feel justified in attacking Jews around the world, an attack on any Jew is also an attack on Isreal.  But don’t forget, “anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism,” it’s only that the Jews support Israel so attacking random Jews is attacking Israel.

Now that has spread to attacking the American defense contractor industry.

There is a part of me that says “good, let it come.”  Maybe it will inspire Americans to a post-9/11 style pushback, recognizing just how violent and insane the Palestinian/Leftist chimera is.

Then another part of me says “it’s not 2001 anymore and people will cower and capitulate to Palestinian/Leftist chimera terrorism.”

What I can say is that we’re all Israelis now, and the Palestinian/Leftist chimera feels fully justified in attacking and killing any one of us for their cause.